Speaking for everyone snowed-in in DC, White House Counselor John Podesta remarked that “big snow trumped big data,” while on the phone to open the first of the Obama Administration’s three big data and privacy workshops. This first workshop, which I was eager to attend (if only to continue my streak of annual appearances in Beantown), focused on advancing the “start of the art” in technology and practice. For a mere lawyer such as myself, I anticipated a lot of highly technical jargon, and in that regard I was not disappointed. // Full recap on the Future of Privacy Forum Blog.